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two schools of thought on the nsa. brian, interesting the obama administration pushed back on "the washington post," saying don't run that story, at least let us talk about what you're breaking. i find that fascinating. >> so many moving parts to this. here's the thing. i am fascinated by the fact peter king and michael hayden have to further define the program, as soon as pushed by "the washington post" or telegraph, it is unbelievable. they point out as michael hayden did, if you look at the amount of work the nsa is doing with the percentage of mistakes and they all agree, it is human error, it is not some problem with the system, he's saying it is 99.9% accurate. what i have a problem is not being transparent to the fisa court. >> last year, 3,000 mistakes? >> out of 240 billion? >> no, no, no, no, no. that's one instance of one office, of one server they picked up 3,000 errors. kimberly, bob, do you want to weigh in on this? >> i am scared of you today. >> me, too. >> yes, by the way, well -- >> don't. >> listen,
two schools of thought on the nsa. brian, interesting the obama administration pushed back on "the washington post," saying don't run that story, at least let us talk about what you're breaking. i find that fascinating. >> so many moving parts to this. here's the thing. i am fascinated by the fact peter king and michael hayden have to further define the program, as soon as pushed by "the washington post" or telegraph, it is unbelievable. they point out as michael...
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big fights about surveillance and restrictions on the nsa. what's going on? why the split inside the party and why is it playing out so early in this cycle? >> a lot of main stream republicans are upset, even angry at what you might call the bomb throwing wing of the party led by the ted cruz and others for these threats. not because they don't want to defund obama care or are are happy with the sequester. because this is feel-good politics. it makes your base feel good. but it disappoints those who are on your side when you only control half of the legislative branch. you can't force your will on the rest of us. here is the irony. obamacare remains fairly unpopular. people like some of the benefits like no pre-existing conditions and there are problems with the implementation. this is taking the spotlight off problems with the law putting it on deep divisions within the republican party. >> juan, democrats have plenty of their own internal battles. should they love what's going on inside the republican party? >> there is a jamaican song saying the rain don't
big fights about surveillance and restrictions on the nsa. what's going on? why the split inside the party and why is it playing out so early in this cycle? >> a lot of main stream republicans are upset, even angry at what you might call the bomb throwing wing of the party led by the ted cruz and others for these threats. not because they don't want to defund obama care or are are happy with the sequester. because this is feel-good politics. it makes your base feel good. but it...
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we'll talk with a former director of the cia and nsa general michael hayden, as well as nsa critic congressman justin amash of michigan. then washington keeps heading for a budget impasse and government shutdown. >> we've seen a certain faction of republicans in congress saying they wouldn't pay the very bills that congress racked up in the first place. >> you know, instead of working together, the president yesterday threatened to shut down the government. >> in an exclusive interview, we'll ask house majority leader eric cantor if they can make a deal before the deadline, all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington. we begin with a terror threat that has prompted the state department to arab i global issl alert for americans, and close two dozen embassies and consulates across the muslim world. we're told the al-qaeda threat is specific, but the targets are not. chief washington correspondent james rosen has the latest. james? >> chris, good morning. president obama and his national security team approached this day, the president's 52nd birthday, not in a sta
we'll talk with a former director of the cia and nsa general michael hayden, as well as nsa critic congressman justin amash of michigan. then washington keeps heading for a budget impasse and government shutdown. >> we've seen a certain faction of republicans in congress saying they wouldn't pay the very bills that congress racked up in the first place. >> you know, instead of working together, the president yesterday threatened to shut down the government. >> in an exclusive...
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the latest nsa leak is a bombshell. we're now learning the government's broken the rules on spying again and again. thousands of times per year. but officials have at the national security agency say, mistakes happen. don't worry about it. another bloody and deadly day in egypt. we'll show you how the gunfire got so intense it forced people to jump off a bridge. and lou should the white house handle this mess now? plus, listen to this. a new study is out that shows lap computers actually hurt kids' grades in school. it finds that students who use pencil and paper get higher marks. the reason for that, unless breaking news changes everything on "studio b." >> first, from fox, at 3:00 in new york city, the deadly day oflag -- of rage in egypt. dramatic video which appears to show people jumping off the bridge i mentioned in cairo to escape the gunfire. look at this. >> shepard: this is amateur video. seems to speak for itself. dozens more people reported dead today on top of the hundreds killed and thousands hurt earlier
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let us start right off with the nsa program. i know some of it was covered in the previous panel, but i want to get into, with raj, how it actually works. i am talking about the metadata program, which was probably the biggest disclosure by edward snowden, the fact that millions and millions of records of american phone calls were being collected/stored. i will let people use the words they want. by the nsa, under a provision of the patriot act. walk us through exactly how this program works in practice. who has access to it? what can those records be used for? >> thanks for pulling this all together. what i wanted to start out with is that i firmly believe the u.s. government intelligence community, nsa in particular, needs to be as transparent as possible, consistent with our need to protect national security. it is that last piece that makes it so difficult to talk about. i would like to be as informative and helpful in this discussion as possible. the reason i say that is, it is my job as general counsel to make sure our act
let us start right off with the nsa program. i know some of it was covered in the previous panel, but i want to get into, with raj, how it actually works. i am talking about the metadata program, which was probably the biggest disclosure by edward snowden, the fact that millions and millions of records of american phone calls were being collected/stored. i will let people use the words they want. by the nsa, under a provision of the patriot act. walk us through exactly how this program works in...
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. >>> tonight, the father of nsa leaker edward snowden is speaking out, saying his son is not a traitor. and though snowden's father says he believes in the american justice system, he does not think his son would get a fair trial if he returns from russia. abc's susan saulny in washington tonight. >> as a father, i want my son to come home. >> reporter: today, in an exclusive interview with abc's george stephanopoulos, lon snowden, father of fugitive nsa leaker edward snowden, said plans have been made to reunite in russia. >> you're going to moscow? >> reporter: bruce fein is the family's lawyer and says it will happen very soon. >> we have visas, we have a date which we won't disclose because of the frenzy. >> reporter: the purpose of trip -- to come up with a criminal defense against charges of espionage. >> what i would like is for this to be vetted in open court for the american people to have all the facts. >> reporter: but the elder snowden is not convinced his son could get a fair trial. >> when you consider many of the statements made by our leaders, they have poisoned the wel
. >>> tonight, the father of nsa leaker edward snowden is speaking out, saying his son is not a traitor. and though snowden's father says he believes in the american justice system, he does not think his son would get a fair trial if he returns from russia. abc's susan saulny in washington tonight. >> as a father, i want my son to come home. >> reporter: today, in an exclusive interview with abc's george stephanopoulos, lon snowden, father of fugitive nsa leaker edward...
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let's start with the nsa. how widespread does the revelation show their surveillance programs are of u.s. citizens? >> i think it was a shock to everyone about what we learned from snowden's revelation. the nsa is collecting information on potentially every american. it is from telephone metadata. that is pretty much every call you have made. they store that data for five years. >> what happens to it after that? >> well, we do not really know. they say they can only store it for five years, so in theory, it has to be destroyed after that. another program we are learning about collected e-mail metadata. so they are doing e-mail, too. they say that ended in 2011. >> walk us through the metadata. what exactly is that? why is it important in this data collection program? >> when you are investigating terrorism, what you are looking for is not just individual people, but networks. if you found one person, you're interested and who else is working with them? you want to look at who they communicate with. this inform
let's start with the nsa. how widespread does the revelation show their surveillance programs are of u.s. citizens? >> i think it was a shock to everyone about what we learned from snowden's revelation. the nsa is collecting information on potentially every american. it is from telephone metadata. that is pretty much every call you have made. they store that data for five years. >> what happens to it after that? >> well, we do not really know. they say they can only store it...
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i somehow attribute it to the nsa. the nsa is not the irs. let's make that clear. i would not for a moment give these powers to the irs. the nsa is probably under more surveillance -- which is ironic any otherthan operation in our country today. it is watch on a regular basis i the fisa court. i do not think we need a fisa court. has thethe president power as commander-in-chief to carry out these operations. that is what president bush claimed in the early to thousands. that is what the court has said. the reality is we will have a fisa court. in any event, it is monitored on a regular basis. 30 day reports. six month reports. if when they are tracking -- last year, only 300 times were they had to drill down a numbers -- if they make a mistake and put the wrong digit , they have to do a full report on that. they have to purge everything they got. they have to file a report with that one explaining human error that was made. that is the type of scrutiny that it is under. my experience on the intelligence committee with the nsa was, what we heard over the last severa
i somehow attribute it to the nsa. the nsa is not the irs. let's make that clear. i would not for a moment give these powers to the irs. the nsa is probably under more surveillance -- which is ironic any otherthan operation in our country today. it is watch on a regular basis i the fisa court. i do not think we need a fisa court. has thethe president power as commander-in-chief to carry out these operations. that is what president bush claimed in the early to thousands. that is what the court...
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person, the nsa cannot listen to your telephone calls and the nsa cannot target your e-mails. >> then we feignind out, well, e they are but if they are, it is to combat terrorism. >> as i've said, this program is an important tool in our effort to disrupt terrorist plots and it does not allow the government to listen to any phone call without a warrant. >> yeah. like the phone call of the boston bombers. i forgot, you didn't know anything about them. even though the russians directed you to them a number of time and tamerlan should never have been allowed in the country and should have been stopped by i.s.e. and the fbi. then again the fbi and i.c. ebs don't have a way of talking to each other. or at left a that's what they say. or you need this program so that you can give the nypd a phone number in that case that they were already on top of. so now the administration says, don't worry. the fisa court protects us. it is only with that court's approval that any calls can be monitored. except enter the chief judge of the foreign intelligence surveillance court. he says that his court l
person, the nsa cannot listen to your telephone calls and the nsa cannot target your e-mails. >> then we feignind out, well, e they are but if they are, it is to combat terrorism. >> as i've said, this program is an important tool in our effort to disrupt terrorist plots and it does not allow the government to listen to any phone call without a warrant. >> yeah. like the phone call of the boston bombers. i forgot, you didn't know anything about them. even though the russians...
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. >>> tonight, the father of nsa leaker edward snowden is speaking out, saying his son is not a traitor. and though snowden's father says he believes in the american justice system, he does not think his son would get a fair trial if he returns from russia. abc's susan saulny in washington tonight. >> as a father, i want my son to come home. >> reporter: today, in an exclusive interview with abc's george stephanopoulos, lon snowden, father of fugitive nsa leaker edward snowden, said plans have been made to reunite in russia. >> you're going to moscow? >> reporter: bruce fein is the family's lawyer and says it will happen very soon. >> we have visas, we have a date which we won't disclose because of the frenzy. >> reporter: the purpose of trip -- to come up with a criminal defense against charges of espionage. >> what i would like is for this to be vetted in open court for the american people to have all the facts. >> reporter: but the elder snowden is not convinced his son could get a fair trial. >> when you consider many of the statements made by our leaders, they have poisoned the wel
. >>> tonight, the father of nsa leaker edward snowden is speaking out, saying his son is not a traitor. and though snowden's father says he believes in the american justice system, he does not think his son would get a fair trial if he returns from russia. abc's susan saulny in washington tonight. >> as a father, i want my son to come home. >> reporter: today, in an exclusive interview with abc's george stephanopoulos, lon snowden, father of fugitive nsa leaker edward...
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my experience with the nsa was, what we heard mainly over the last several years, before any the nsa hade, information about people attacking dick cheney and others, waterboarding. the only time it came up as a debate in the intelligence committee was people from the nsa saying how tough it was to work with the fisa court, to get court orders, to follow up on the information we were getting. stamp, it isrubber- highly scrutinized. i realize the american people will say, do not worry, congress is looking out for you, that is not the greatest overconfidence. theeve me, people on intelligence committee take it seriously. mike rogers is extremely conscientious about that. this stuff is looked at very carefully. i do not see any significant violation of civil liberties, no significant -- like in 2009, it like one of those forest gump moments and you become a witness to history. i was the mayor bloomberg's home when he was entertaining the lord mayor of london. rupert murdoch was there, other powerful people, even tina brown like one of, to show you l it was. ray kelly was there as well. w
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, and read your statement from a former nsa employee and william binney who recently said the nsa is putting together dossiers on every u.s. citizen, listing who we have relations with, what our activities are. is there any truth to that and why do stories like this persists? it isn't true., we're not putting dossiers up on every u.s. citizen. in fact, we don't have a dossier on you. i have never seen one of your e- mails from an intelligence perspective or otherwise, actually. from my perspective, these are grossly out of the truth. they really are. to think we would be collecting on every u.s. person, one, that would be against the law for you and two, we get great oversight by all breaches of the government. i must have been bad when i was a kid. we get supervised by the defense department. o.ey see everything we do rea by the white house, by the congress, and by the court. so all branches of government can see what we're doing is correct. so my concern is that false statements like these seem to persist. you see them bounce around. it only hurts because people think, well, they m
, and read your statement from a former nsa employee and william binney who recently said the nsa is putting together dossiers on every u.s. citizen, listing who we have relations with, what our activities are. is there any truth to that and why do stories like this persists? it isn't true., we're not putting dossiers up on every u.s. citizen. in fact, we don't have a dossier on you. i have never seen one of your e- mails from an intelligence perspective or otherwise, actually. from my...
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it is not just nsa intercepts. it is informant information, ation with wiretaps in one case and using them for a second case. that a large database of phone records. phoneer they get a records for someone suspected of involvement in drugs or gang involvement from the dea, they put all of those timbers into one giant database and use that information to compare different cases. all of the collection seems legitimate in terms of being court ordered. what troubled some critics is the fact they are hiding that information from drug defendant to face trial. the problem with that is, if these defendants won't know about some potentially that mayry information affect their case and the right to a fair trial. >> explain exactly how this information is being hidden from judges, prosecutors, and sometimes defense attorneys as well. >> sure. just to give you an example, through any of these four different ways including the nsa intercepts, the dea's special operations division will send the information to a dea agent in the f
it is not just nsa intercepts. it is informant information, ation with wiretaps in one case and using them for a second case. that a large database of phone records. phoneer they get a records for someone suspected of involvement in drugs or gang involvement from the dea, they put all of those timbers into one giant database and use that information to compare different cases. all of the collection seems legitimate in terms of being court ordered. what troubled some critics is the fact they are...
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cost -- nsa's surveillance program. i appreciate it is difficult to talk about classified programs in public settings. the american people expect and deserve honest answers. it has been thought to get -- to difficult to get answers about the program, but this program is a critical national security tool. some supporters of this program have repeatedly come to light about the efficacy of this complained about the efficacy of this section 215 . i don't think it is a coincidence when we have people make thatent comparison, but it needs to stop. the americanof people is beginning to wear thin. what has to be of more concern for the trustacy of the american people is wearing thin. i asked general alexander about the effectiveness of section 215 . at a hearing last month he agreed to provide a classified list of terrorist events that section 215 helped to prevent. i reviewed that list. it does not do the same for section 215. the list does not find the events that were hoped to prevent. these facts matter. the collection has
cost -- nsa's surveillance program. i appreciate it is difficult to talk about classified programs in public settings. the american people expect and deserve honest answers. it has been thought to get -- to difficult to get answers about the program, but this program is a critical national security tool. some supporters of this program have repeatedly come to light about the efficacy of this complained about the efficacy of this section 215 . i don't think it is a coincidence when we have...
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let's go back to march when senator ron wyden question james clapper about the nsa. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. not. does >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >> that is what clapper said about the nsa in march. spencer ackerman, we have come a long way, or have we? where is this going right now? >> let's just back up. the reason why ron wyden even asked that question in public hearing in the first place was to go back to keep alexander, general alexander at a different hacker conference last year was asked that question in different form and he said it was hogwash, that it was simply no truth to the idea that the nsa was keeping what he called dossiers on lanes of americans. -- on millions of americans. clapper and the nsa and ultimately led widen out of frustration to ask clapper that question publicly. last week he referred to a culture of misinformation in the intelligence committee by senior intelligence officials, clapper, alexander and othe
let's go back to march when senator ron wyden question james clapper about the nsa. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. not. does >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >> that is what clapper said about the nsa in march. spencer ackerman, we have come a long way, or have we? where is this going right now? >> let's just back up....
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. >>> does the nsa really know how much of our information has been compromised? >>> and a skin cancer warning for men. >>> and an incredible rescue by a firefighter. all coming up in two minutes. >>> stories making news this morning. more than two months after edward snowden leaked top secret documents to the media, the national security agency still does not know the full extent of what he took. the agency is, quote, overwhelmed by the amount of damage snowden has done. >>> a truck crashing through a guardrail and down a ravine it goes in central michigan. you can see the truck and its trailer launch off the road before disappearing below. the driver is expected to recover from the injuries that he has. >>> a new york taxi jumping the curb and hitting a 23-year-old woman, severing one of her legs below the knee. that happened yesterday. tv's dr. oz happened to be at the scene. he said a good samaritan saved the woman's life with a tourniquet. >> there was a dog leash and a belt, amazingly two mundane things, but they saved her life. with the two of them, we were
. >>> does the nsa really know how much of our information has been compromised? >>> and a skin cancer warning for men. >>> and an incredible rescue by a firefighter. all coming up in two minutes. >>> stories making news this morning. more than two months after edward snowden leaked top secret documents to the media, the national security agency still does not know the full extent of what he took. the agency is, quote, overwhelmed by the amount of damage...
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in the beginning, the headlines were all administration defends nsa. senators defend nsa. you couldn't find a senator who would say anything bad about it. now, the more they look at it, look at the headlines this morning in "the new york times." senate panel presses nsa on phone logs. headline in "the washington post," skepticism deepens about nsa program. and it just so happens that yesterday, talk about timing, snowden came out through edward snowden and glen greenwald at at "the guardian," this one called ex-key score which is the widest-reaching collection of data yet that we just found out about. here's how it is described. it enables the nsa to search with no prior authorization, no prior authorization through vast databases containing e-mails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals. in other words, every single thing you do online, the nsa can capture it. look at it. monitor it. without prior authorization by the fisa court. no wonder there were so many questions raised yesterday. now, of course, there were the defenders of the program. s
in the beginning, the headlines were all administration defends nsa. senators defend nsa. you couldn't find a senator who would say anything bad about it. now, the more they look at it, look at the headlines this morning in "the new york times." senate panel presses nsa on phone logs. headline in "the washington post," skepticism deepens about nsa program. and it just so happens that yesterday, talk about timing, snowden came out through edward snowden and glen greenwald at...
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nsa admits new privacy violations. kevin johnson writing about the top intelligence officials here yen . there are other accounts of the story as well. theheard some thoughts on 35-year sentence handed down. you could make your thoughts known as well. kentucky up next. archie on the independent line. good morning. personally i think they both deserve a government of freedom. this government serves it's self and huge multinational corporations. that is all it serves. they have no interest in what we want and our rights as a citizen. privacy as out the window. this is 1984. thank you very much. host: a presidential pardon is the goal of a new web site. this is for bradley manning. in conjunction with the announcement, the support network has launched the website that connects to a petition written by amnesty international and a video with testimony from veterans and civilians from afghanistan. it will link to the official application for pardon as soon as it is available. a couple of thoughts this morning on pardon. rand
nsa admits new privacy violations. kevin johnson writing about the top intelligence officials here yen . there are other accounts of the story as well. theheard some thoughts on 35-year sentence handed down. you could make your thoughts known as well. kentucky up next. archie on the independent line. good morning. personally i think they both deserve a government of freedom. this government serves it's self and huge multinational corporations. that is all it serves. they have no interest in...
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the nsa programs would have happened. gate, president obama announced a series of reforms for the controversy all nsa surveillance program. >> we can and must be more transparent. >> including a civil liberties officer at the nsa, a high-level commission to review the intelligence program, and coordination with congress to review the program that collects telephone records. >> it is not enough for me as president to have confidence in these programs. the american people need to have confidence in them as well. >> the president insisted the changes would have taken place even if edward stone in -- even if edward snowden did not leak the nsa programs. >> i think we would have gotten to the same place. >> but do the surveillance reforms vindicate snowden? he has been charged with three felonies, it and if you think c is innocent, the president said he should return to the u.s. and stand trial. >> there were other avenues available for somebody's tensions were stirred and thought they needed to question government actions. we
the nsa programs would have happened. gate, president obama announced a series of reforms for the controversy all nsa surveillance program. >> we can and must be more transparent. >> including a civil liberties officer at the nsa, a high-level commission to review the intelligence program, and coordination with congress to review the program that collects telephone records. >> it is not enough for me as president to have confidence in these programs. the american people need...
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we get information from other agencies that they collect whether nsa, fbi. we are not collecting it. it is the lawfully connect the -- collected. it came after 2009 that we do not have access to some of the types of information that would help us like the underwear bomber. we had great access to threat information coming from the reports provided to us by cia, the nsa. what we do not have is the kind of access we needed to non-terrorism databases. information about individuals applying for refugee status in the united states or for visas. because what we need to do is have information and not just for a minute or a day or a week but long enough so we have the rate information from the cia, from a source, all we have is a name or a first name, what we do to compare the information to the other information we have also collected at the government has about people traveling care or seeking asylum so that we can then provided to the agencies that can act on it? it is my perspective that we were already doing it will be somewhat surprised i would have trouble doi
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not just the nsa but also al qaeda and the president's talk of al qaeda being on the run. mccain very critical of the president on that. says that he feels that our policy is in retreat in the middle east and at the same time that he says al qaeda, while it has been diminished in pakistan, it is resurgent in a lot of the world. especially in yemen. and he sees that as kind of a bad thing that we're pulling back and al qaeda is helping to fill the vacuum. of course, one of the places he's especially critical of this president is syria where he feels that the president is at least two years late in terms of trying to step in, stop the slaughter, and depose the brutal dictator there, bashar assad. >> mr. mccain has actually gone to syria, that with members of the free syrian party. what does he expect will happen when the president gets back from vacation on all these issues? >> well, i'm not sure he expects a lot of difference. i mean, it's not like, you know, the president has made his policy, he's talking in the case of syria about small arms. which although that came out
not just the nsa but also al qaeda and the president's talk of al qaeda being on the run. mccain very critical of the president on that. says that he feels that our policy is in retreat in the middle east and at the same time that he says al qaeda, while it has been diminished in pakistan, it is resurgent in a lot of the world. especially in yemen. and he sees that as kind of a bad thing that we're pulling back and al qaeda is helping to fill the vacuum. of course, one of the places he's...
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say the nsa is looking at one suspected terrorist. they will access not only that person's phone records but the phone records of everyone that person talks to. and the phone records of every person those people talk to and will go one more level and access phone records of all of those people. this isn't even the scale. in total one suspect can leave the phone records of 2 and a half million americans. this is raising some red flags on capitol hill at a senate hearing yesterday. officials were asked about a number of surveillance programs including this one that insnares phone records. >> how can you justify the assertion that home records of millions of americans who have nothing to do with terrorism are relevant with an authorized investigation under section 215? >> so i begin by noting that a number of judges repeatedly over the years have found that these records are in fact relevant. the reason is the standard of relevance we are talking about here is nothing -- >> nsa director keithnder was heckled at a conference in>. why woul
say the nsa is looking at one suspected terrorist. they will access not only that person's phone records but the phone records of everyone that person talks to. and the phone records of every person those people talk to and will go one more level and access phone records of all of those people. this isn't even the scale. in total one suspect can leave the phone records of 2 and a half million americans. this is raising some red flags on capitol hill at a senate hearing yesterday. officials were...
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you have expressed concern about the nsa. explain why you voted against the amendment to pull the funding for these programs? >> no one should misinterpret that vote because i've argued for a long time that we need more transparency, more accountable and more reform at the nsa. i voted against the reauthorization of the patriot act because i thought it was too loosely written and provided too much running room for potential abuse. but my biggest issue is not so much the database itself. it's what standards and what rules apply when nsa officials want to query that database. that important there will be oversight. i've argued we need a reform where, before the nsa can go out and do that, they have to get prior court approval and that in that process, when you go before the fisa court, there be a public advocate, a privacy advocate so distort is not just hearing from the nsa, the court is also hearing from a privacy advocate and then they can make a decision. those are two important reforms that i think we have to make. those a
you have expressed concern about the nsa. explain why you voted against the amendment to pull the funding for these programs? >> no one should misinterpret that vote because i've argued for a long time that we need more transparency, more accountable and more reform at the nsa. i voted against the reauthorization of the patriot act because i thought it was too loosely written and provided too much running room for potential abuse. but my biggest issue is not so much the database itself....
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let's start with the nsa. how widespread does the revelation show their surveillance programs are of u.s. citizens? >> i think it was a shock to everyone about what we learned from snowden's revelation. the nsa is collecting information on potentially every american. it is from telephone metadata. that is pretty much every call you have made. they store that data for five years. >> what happens to it after that? >> well, we do not really know. they say they can only store it for five years, so in theory, it has to be destroyed after that. another program we are learning about collected e-mail metadata. so they are doing e-mail, too. they say that ended in 2011. >> walk us through the metadata. what exactly is that? why is it important in this data collection program? >> when you are investigating terrorism, what you are looking for is not just individual people, but networks. if you found one person, you're interested and who else is working with them? you want to look at who they communicate with. this inform
let's start with the nsa. how widespread does the revelation show their surveillance programs are of u.s. citizens? >> i think it was a shock to everyone about what we learned from snowden's revelation. the nsa is collecting information on potentially every american. it is from telephone metadata. that is pretty much every call you have made. they store that data for five years. >> what happens to it after that? >> well, we do not really know. they say they can only store it...
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. >>> edward snowden's father is sounding off and criticizing washington for its handling of the nsa leak case. he said he's obtained the papers necessary to visit snowden in russia and says that's where the former analyst will remain for the foreseeable future. bryan mooar has the story. >> reporter: the father of edward snowden says the nsa leaker isn't headed back to the united states because he won't get a fair trial. >> as a father, i want my son to come home, if i believe that the justice so many that we should be afforded of as americans is going to be applied correctly. >> reporter: until then lon snowden says he'll visit his son in russia, snowden's temporary asylum there has chilled u.s./russian relations and the political furor here at homes shows no signs of cooling off. before leaving for his vacation on martha ans's vineyard, president obama said he'd already been moving the nsa toward more transparency and accountability. >> i don't think mr. snowden was a patriot. >> he betrayed his oath of office. there's a young generation that believe he's some kind of jason bourne
. >>> edward snowden's father is sounding off and criticizing washington for its handling of the nsa leak case. he said he's obtained the papers necessary to visit snowden in russia and says that's where the former analyst will remain for the foreseeable future. bryan mooar has the story. >> reporter: the father of edward snowden says the nsa leaker isn't headed back to the united states because he won't get a fair trial. >> as a father, i want my son to come home, if i...
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because the nsa program has been under attack recently but i don't think this was the nsa program that we've been speaking about. , the prism program as it has been called. this is a totally different nsa program. it does put in. sa certainly in a good light if they were responsible for this because it's a masterful piece of intelligence gathering. but again, if you're telling al qaeda how you're gathering information about them, in the future they will be much more cautious and you will probably not be able to pick their pockets the same way you have in the past. heather: it puts our sources at risk as well. peter, you mentioned nsa. so i will just ask this question. what if it was edward snowden that had leaked all this information? >> well, i mean obviously that's troubling and people do know a lot more now about our intelligence collection programs. i mean obviously this is a devisive issue between civil libertarians and national security types. but the same sort of thing here, i believe that these programs are, you know, are legal, they're constitutional and they protect our natio
because the nsa program has been under attack recently but i don't think this was the nsa program that we've been speaking about. , the prism program as it has been called. this is a totally different nsa program. it does put in. sa certainly in a good light if they were responsible for this because it's a masterful piece of intelligence gathering. but again, if you're telling al qaeda how you're gathering information about them, in the future they will be much more cautious and you will...
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they're the latest news from nsa leaker edward snowden. whether the director of the national security agency, people are feeling the heat. >> i'm saying i don't trust you. you lied to congress. why would we believe you now? >> he said he hasn't lied to congress. as the senate judiciary held hearings, the office of the national director of intelligence, released information on its intelligence gathering operations. only tiny fraction of such records are ever viewed by nsa intelligence analysts. the program is called ex-key score. analysts require no prior authorization from any court from using it to conduct searches on americans. they only have to fill in a box state thing's a foreign connection. the article details how it searches not just e-mail subject lines and addresses but the body of the message itself. also, web browsing history. the nsa maintains access to other search tools is limited. congressman justin amash is a skeptic. he tried and nearly succeeded in passing legislation and is now backing bipartisan legislation to try again
they're the latest news from nsa leaker edward snowden. whether the director of the national security agency, people are feeling the heat. >> i'm saying i don't trust you. you lied to congress. why would we believe you now? >> he said he hasn't lied to congress. as the senate judiciary held hearings, the office of the national director of intelligence, released information on its intelligence gathering operations. only tiny fraction of such records are ever viewed by nsa...
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new information detailing the government's once-secret spying program and how closely the nsa can monitor you without a warrant. >>> game over for a-rod? the yankees slugger reportedly negotiating a settlement. how long he could be forced to sit out. >> long, long. >> long time. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm michael pereira. >>> up first today, it's sentencing day for ariel castro, the ohio man who kept three women imprisoned in his home for at least a decade. castro pleaded guilty last week to more than 090 counts including murder and kidnapping. it was a deal that spared him a possible death sentence and we're expected to hear from one of castro's victims. as new details emerge from this decade of horror. >> reporter: prosecutors failed a sentencing memorandum thursday detailing how he kidnapped amanda berry, gina dejesus and the abuse they endured. they kept a diary. castro also admitted to having the girls chained by their ankles with only one meal a day, showering infrequently. while he had sexual lu assaulted them. he said that he had
new information detailing the government's once-secret spying program and how closely the nsa can monitor you without a warrant. >>> game over for a-rod? the yankees slugger reportedly negotiating a settlement. how long he could be forced to sit out. >> long, long. >> long time. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm michael pereira. >>> up first today, it's sentencing day for ariel castro, the ohio...
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nsa snoops, collect a whole bunch of information. i am okay with that if it is used against terrorists. but wait a second, now we find it is being used by the dea. the nose others. address that question. >> they know the drug trafficking and terror funding are interrelated. i do not have a problem with that. monica: we get different stories, first we were told they were targeting foreign terrorists. now we are told are not looking at the content, we're just looking for patterns. now we find out according to "the new york times" this week, bernard, in fact they are monitoring the content of your phone calls and e-mails. the story keeps shifting, the goalposts keeps shifting. should the government and president be held responsible for that? >> he should not have to address and unveil our national security policies whether that is wiretapping, is dropping, i don't understand why we had to have a public conversation of matters typically cap private. they basically say back off, back off. monica: you were happy to have that conversation t
nsa snoops, collect a whole bunch of information. i am okay with that if it is used against terrorists. but wait a second, now we find it is being used by the dea. the nose others. address that question. >> they know the drug trafficking and terror funding are interrelated. i do not have a problem with that. monica: we get different stories, first we were told they were targeting foreign terrorists. now we are told are not looking at the content, we're just looking for patterns. now we...
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. >>> does the nsa have your number and web history and e-mails just a keystroke away? new reporting says yes and reveals the classified software they use to access that and more. we're joined by a lawmaker who wants to remain in the agency. >>> and is there a bellyache in this bag. investigators say they've traced an ugly stomach bug is linked to contaminated bugs of salad. why aren't they saying which brand to avoid? we'll investigate that. >>> in rehab racket, we've been telling you this week what a year-long investigation for the center of investigative reporting reveals about a program that's costing us money, big money. the investigation documents how california's federally funded medicaid system, medi-cal paid out $94 million, again, your money, in the past two years to drug clinics that show signs of deception or questionable billing practices. among scams, billing for phony patients, drug treatments never provided or treatments the patient didn't need. in one case the patient was dead. it's truly staggering stuff. for weeks our investigative correspondent drew
. >>> does the nsa have your number and web history and e-mails just a keystroke away? new reporting says yes and reveals the classified software they use to access that and more. we're joined by a lawmaker who wants to remain in the agency. >>> and is there a bellyache in this bag. investigators say they've traced an ugly stomach bug is linked to contaminated bugs of salad. why aren't they saying which brand to avoid? we'll investigate that. >>> in rehab racket,...
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it's no longer a tenable position for the nsa to say trust us. >> i totally reject those kind of claims. >> the head of the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy says since the nsa is not giving straight answers he'll open a senate hearing after the summer break. >>> now to the latest developments in egypt. it's been a day of rage. dozens of people were killed in confrontations with security forces. and demonstrators gathered by the thousands. the protests came just two days after egypt's military ruler ordered his forces to clear protest camps. at least 638 people were killed and 1,000 more were wounded. nbc's ayman moden reports. >> reporter: for the third straight night the government has imposed a curfew on the capital, cairo, and cities all across the country. this comes on the heels of a day that has been called a day of rage. that's what it was called by supporters of the ousted president mohammed morrisse president mohammed morrisd mors. their aim was to express that is dissatisfaction with what happened on wednesday, the mass killing of their supporters who were camped out a
it's no longer a tenable position for the nsa to say trust us. >> i totally reject those kind of claims. >> the head of the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy says since the nsa is not giving straight answers he'll open a senate hearing after the summer break. >>> now to the latest developments in egypt. it's been a day of rage. dozens of people were killed in confrontations with security forces. and demonstrators gathered by the thousands. the protests came just two...
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did it have anything to do with the nsa? i would say it would be very valuable for the administration once this has passed to give us more insight into how they knew. if they played a role, that's an important part of that debate. if it didn't, that's also an important part. >> all right, michael. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >>> the control for u.s. senate kicked off this weekend at a 133-year-old church picnic in a small kentucky town. it was the fancy farm kentucky that senate minority leader mitch mcconnell spent his first real day on the campaign trail and faced his two challengers for the first time. mcconnell is being pressured from two sides. on the left is democrat allison lundgrimes. on the right, tea party favorite matt bevin, who is challenging mcconnell in the gop primary. >> if senator mcconnell had his way, his version of kentucky health care for our seniors, grandmother, would be to walk it off. let's just tell it like it is. if the doctors told senator mcconnell that he had a kidney stone, h
did it have anything to do with the nsa? i would say it would be very valuable for the administration once this has passed to give us more insight into how they knew. if they played a role, that's an important part of that debate. if it didn't, that's also an important part. >> all right, michael. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >>> the control for u.s. senate kicked off this weekend at a 133-year-old church picnic in a small kentucky town. it was the fancy...
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>> the nsa leaks have led to surveillance changes in germany. say they willers automatically encrypt customers e-mails. budget telecom ceo said that germans are startled by the information. it is not clear if the german security services would have a key to decrypt e-mails. >> shortly before president obama's news conference about the nsa, he signed legislation into law to temporarily reduce rates on government student loans. interest rates will go down to 3.86% for undergraduates, 5.41% for graduate students. the new rates apply retroactively to all loans taken out after july 1. >> a new terror threat in pakistan. the state department has evacuated nonessential personnel from its consulate and is warning americans not to travel to pakistan. >> this is alarming news for people in the d c area who have loved ones in pakistan. greta kreuz has the reaction. latestcials say this threat is not related to the al qaeda threat that has closed so many other missions. opel say it is just another sign their homeland cannot -- locals say it is just another
>> the nsa leaks have led to surveillance changes in germany. say they willers automatically encrypt customers e-mails. budget telecom ceo said that germans are startled by the information. it is not clear if the german security services would have a key to decrypt e-mails. >> shortly before president obama's news conference about the nsa, he signed legislation into law to temporarily reduce rates on government student loans. interest rates will go down to 3.86% for undergraduates,...
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and had tough words for the nsa leaker edward snowden, said he was not a patriot. take a look. >> mr. snowden's been charged with three felonies. if he believes what he did was right, then like every american citizen, electric come here, appear before the court with a lawyer, and make his case. >> so, what have you been able to learn about what u.s. officials are trying to do to get snowden right now? >> some officials i've talked to wish that a deal could be struck to bring him back to the u.s. make no mistake. one official said he has done irrefutable damage. the more t
and had tough words for the nsa leaker edward snowden, said he was not a patriot. take a look. >> mr. snowden's been charged with three felonies. if he believes what he did was right, then like every american citizen, electric come here, appear before the court with a lawyer, and make his case. >> so, what have you been able to learn about what u.s. officials are trying to do to get snowden right now? >> some officials i've talked to wish that a deal could be struck to bring...
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the former head of the nsa out front to respond. let's go "outfront." >>> the national security agency under fire again for its spying programs. today the obama administration declassified and released three documents outlining the phone and internet data collection
the former head of the nsa out front to respond. let's go "outfront." >>> the national security agency under fire again for its spying programs. today the obama administration declassified and released three documents outlining the phone and internet data collection
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the director of the csa and nsa. he is going to spend a few minutes talking to us about the threat as he sees it. then we will open it up to q&a as joe has already mentioned. so without further ado, i would like to introduce general michael hayden. [applause] [applause] >> good morning and thank you for the chance to chat with you a bit today as carie lemack suggested, i will try to limit my time appeared to about 20 minutes or so. i get to do the strategic overview. what you have are people that are far more expert in the definition of the problem and sponsors to the problem that i think we will all identify with your today. folks in government, folks in industry, federal government, state and local government. think tanks you can come and perhaps begin to map out the way ahead that we want to see reflected in our final report. zelezny began. the cyberthing is very important. i think it is here to stay. we kind of messed it up. i actually did that at a conference about four summers ago in las vegas. i leaned forward
the director of the csa and nsa. he is going to spend a few minutes talking to us about the threat as he sees it. then we will open it up to q&a as joe has already mentioned. so without further ado, i would like to introduce general michael hayden. [applause] [applause] >> good morning and thank you for the chance to chat with you a bit today as carie lemack suggested, i will try to limit my time appeared to about 20 minutes or so. i get to do the strategic overview. what you have are...
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how much is that really when you look at everything the nsa does? >> it's a tiny percentage of the data they collect, search, store, et cetera, that's absolutely true. you could look at it another way. you could say this is a case where the absolute number matters a lot. there are a billion passengers a year on airline flights. we only lose one percent of the luggage so that's 10 million. you have to decide whether this really matters absolutely or whether you only care about sort of a for effort. >> senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein who has been criticized a lot for not being enough of a watch dog for these programs. she said "the committee has never identified an instance in which the nsa has intentionally abused its authority to conduct surveillance for inappropriate purposes. she says they've been briefed on these incidents. what's your take on what he she said in the statement? >> she had a couple of interesting things. the thing about no intentional abuse she said before. what was new was she said her committee needs to take
how much is that really when you look at everything the nsa does? >> it's a tiny percentage of the data they collect, search, store, et cetera, that's absolutely true. you could look at it another way. you could say this is a case where the absolute number matters a lot. there are a billion passengers a year on airline flights. we only lose one percent of the luggage so that's 10 million. you have to decide whether this really matters absolutely or whether you only care about sort of a...